High pressure as a probe of the solid state

Conference · Sun Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 1994 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)

OSTI ID:7168316

Ruoff, A L ^[1]

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1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (United States)

It is a great pleasure and honor to receive the Percy Williams Bridgman Award. Henry Eyring, my Ph.D. advisor, instilled in me a desire to unravel the secrets of nature in the chemical and physical world. He continued what my mother had begun. From my father I learned the virtue and satisfaction of hard work. In reading Percy Bridgman's [ital The] [ital Physics] [ital of] [ital High] [ital Pressure] [1] after I came to Cornell, I became intrigued by the high-pressure variable, so I owe much to him. I received valuable assistance and encouragement from George Kennedy and Harry Drickamer (the first winner of the Bridgman Award) and later from Alvin Van Valkenburg (a co-inventor with three others of the diamond anvil cell). Most importantly, I received encouragement from my wife, Enid Seaton Ruoff, to carry out what is sometimes the arduous pursuit of science---a pursuit that involves long working hours---and I want especially to thank her. [copyright] 1994 American Institute of Physics

• OSTI ID: 7168316
• Report Number(s): CONF-921145-; CODEN: APCPCS
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States), Vol. 309:1; Conference: Production and neutralization of negative ions and beams, Upton, NY (United States), 9-13 Nov 1992; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
SOLIDS
VERY HIGH PRESSURE
CREEP
CRYSTAL DEFECTS
EQUATIONS OF STATE
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
NMR SPECTRA
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
SPIN-LATTICE RELAXATION
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
EQUATIONS
RELAXATION
SPECTRA
665000* - Physics of Condensed Matter- (1992-)